Chinese Workers’ Uprising
October 30, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. But under China’s labor management system, independent unionism is severely restricted, and the ACFTU official trade union body monopolizes worker representation for more than 800 million workers. Independent organizations are barred from agitating for their interests, despite growing wealth inequalities, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. Learn More
Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Culture Industry
October 20, 2016
From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, it’s clear that the US national security state is a dominant force in global media culture. How and why is this so? Please join us for a discussion about the production, profit and power of US Empires culture industry — a nexus between the US state and globalizing media firms and the source of entertainments that promote US Empire as a way of life around the world. Learn More
Understanding the ‘Gig Economy’
October 17, 2016
Where: York University, 4700 Keele Street, York Lanes 280N, Toronto The Global Labour Research Centre (York University), the Socialist Project, and the Centre for Social Justice are pleased to host a talk on “Understanding the ‘Gig Economy’: the Political Economy of Platform Capitalism.” with Ursula Huws, Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire. The […] Learn More
Facing the Anthropocene, Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
September 25, 2016
When: Sunday September 25th, 2pm Where: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun, the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the […] Learn More
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
September 8, 2016
When: Thursday, September 8th, 7pm Where: United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St., Toronto Immanuel Ness, City University of New York Discussants: * Sam Gindin, York University * Viviana Patroni, York University * Kyla Sankey, University of Toronto Co-sponsors: Centre for Social Justice, Department of Social Science, York University, Socialist Project | PDF poster | Facebook […] Learn More